PODCAST 32: Driving Terror looks at one car’s role in Argentina’s darkest period
Tag: Social history
Poverty has many faces
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Scarcity does not always lend itself to statistical analysis. Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru, Kristin Skrabut, 2024, University of Texas Press
Categories: Peru, South America
Poor politicians
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Corruption should never be defined by emperors. The Elementary Forms of Corruption: Moral Imagination and Political Change in Brazil, Aaron Ansell, 2025, Hau Books
Categories: Brazil, Mexico, North America, South America
Two books about violence
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PODCAST 29: Two recent titles offer lessons about violence in Latin America
California dreaming
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A quixotic Chicano novel revives the Golden State’s Hispanic history. Old California Strikes Back: The Fantastic Return of a Californio, Scott Russell Duncan, 2024, FlowerSong Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
The Cuban interregnum
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Castro defined the struggle against imperialism by advocating internationalism. Revolution and the Road to Peace in Colombia: The example of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, 2025, Pathfinder
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Let them eat cake
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Hunger in Mexico’s countryside belies the wealth of its cuisine—and guess who is to blame? México Between Feast and Famine: Food, Corporate Power, and Inequality, Enrique C Ochoa, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Forgotten colonies
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Britain’s footprint in South America is still visible. Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South America, Shafik Meghji, 2025, Hurst & Co
Categories: Argentina, Brazil, Europe, International, South America, United Kingdom, Uruguay
Knowledge is power
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Imperialism aims to erase indigenous wisdom. Translation and Epistemicide: Racialization of Languages in the Americas, Joshua M Price, 2025, University of Arizona Press
Categories: Colombia, Mexico, North America, Peru, South America, United States
Sex and class
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Working-class morality is shaped by material conditions. Sex and Love in Porfirian Mexico City: A Social History of Working-Class Courtship, Michael Matthews, 2025, University Press of Florida
Categories: Mexico, North America